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Record: MDI42E09NE00005

General

Commodities

Primary Commodities: Gold, Copper

Location

Township or Area: Pagwachuan Lake Area

Latitude: 49° 44' 35.39"    Longitude: -86° 8' 46.64"

UTM Zone: 16    Easting: 561508   Northing: 5510425    UTM Datum: NAD83

Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay North

NTS Grid: 42E09NE

Point Location Description: UTM co-ordinates for Prodigy Gold sample

Location Method: Based on Assessment

Access Description: Highway 11 and the East road run east–west to the north of the property. The property is accessible all year round by East road which transects the eastern end of the property, Catlonite road which runs directly south from Longlac, Seagram road which branches off East road and runs southwest through the western end of the property and Caramat road/Highway 625 that branched off Highway 11 approximately 16 km east of Longlac and runs through the central part of the property. A network of gravel forestry roads and logging trails, most of which are drivable by half–ton trucks and others that are accessible by ATV, provide access to various part of the property. Most areas of the property can also be accessed through water ways provided by numerous lakes, some of which are connected. The right of way of the Canada National Railway which transects the property also provides access to some areas by foot.

Exploration History

1936: Kenogamisis Gold Mines Limited – stripping and trenching. 1979: Shell Canada Resources Ltd. – airborne geophysics. 1983: Villeneuve Resources Ltd. – ground geophysics, DD-5-1431 ft., assays 1987 : Golden Rock Exploration Inc. – ground geophysics, DD-3-988 ft. 2010: Co-ordinates Capital Corporation – RC-30, pitting, geochemistry. 2011: Prodigy Gold Incorporated – mapping, prospecting, sampling, stripping

Assessment Work on File

Geology

Province: Superior

Subprovince: Wabigoon

Terrane: Eastern Wabigoon

Belt: Beardmore-Geraldton

Geological Age: Neoarchean  

Lithology

Lithology Comments

Mar 18, 2014 (A Wilson) - Quartz veins were observed along a sheared contact between mafic metavolcanics and a gabbro intrusive body.

Mineralization

Mineralization Comments

Mar 18, 2014 (A Wilson) - Assay values up to $29.00/ton over narrow widths were obtained, but the average of values was much lower. Grab samples collected from the property by the OGS in 1979 returned only values up to 10 ppb Au. Assays from the Villeneuve Resources drilling returned values ranging from 0.02 oz/t Au over 1.5 m in Villeneuve DDH 83-1 to 0.07 oz/t Au over 1.5 m in Villeneuve DDH 83-4. Assay result of a couple of grab samples collected by Prodigy Gold from the area returned significant gold values with the best being G31428 which returned ~6.0 g/t Au. The best sample returned 17.7 g/t Au over 0.30 m.

Mineral Record Details

References

Part - Geology of the Pagwachuan Lake area

Publication Number: ARV46-03.002 Page: 39  Date: 1997

Author: Macdonald R.D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

MonoMap - Geology of the Klob Lake area, District of Thunder Bay

Publication Number: R235 Page: 67  Date: 1984

Author: Amukun S.E.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

Map - Long Lake-Pagwachuan Lake area, District of Thunder Bay, Ontario

Publication Number: ARM46B Scale: 1:63,360    Date: 1997

Author: Fairbairn H.W., Macdonald R.D.

Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines

Location:

Map - Klob Lake, Thunder Bay District

Publication Number: M2469 Scale: 1:31,680    Date: 1984

Author: Amukun S.E., Gillespie R.T.

Publisher Name: Ontario Geological Survey

Location:

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